Gabby Giffords "Furious" At Senate Gun Vote Result; "Shame On You!" Supporters Shout

"I'm furious," Gabby Giffords said in an emotional op ed piece for the New York Times. Gabrielle Giffords, the former Congresswoman and gun control adcoacte, is angry at the Senate for rejecting a bipartisan amendment to tighten laws on gun background checks.

"Speaking is physically difficult for me. But my feelings are clear: I'm furious," Giffords wrote. "I will not rest until we have righted the wrong these senators have done, and until we have changed our laws so we can look parents in the face and say: We are trying to keep our children safe."

Giffords isn't the only one who's upset. "Shame on you!" Patricia Maisch, who survived the 2011 mass shooting in Tucson, yelled from the Chamber floor on Wednesday immediately after the Senate rejected the gun control proposal.

Giffords is well known in part because she was shot at point blank range in January 2011 during an Arizona appearance. She said that Congress was putting the gun lobby's interests before communities. Maisch is a cult hero for taking the magazine from the hands of the man who shot Gabrielle Giffords and several others in Arizona last year after the gunman was tackled by bystanders. She was one of two women who shouted "Shame on you!" after the bill failed to pass. Both women have ties to gun violence. The other was Lori Haas, whose daughter was shot during the Virginia Tech incident of 2007. The women were escorted out of the Senate chamber by security.

Obama was also visibly upset, saying "the gun lobby and its allies willfully lied about the bill." 

The bill fell six votes short of the 60 it required to overcome a filibuster.  Maisch explained her actions to the press:  "Because they are an embarrassment to this country that they don't have any compassion or care for people who have been taken brutally from their families," she said.

Haas said "We are sick and tired of the death in this country and these legislators stand up there and think it's a bunch of numbers. There's been 187,000 Americans killed since Virginia Tech. My daughter was shot and injured six years ago yesterday. It's a shame, it's appalling, it's disgusting."